Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin present in many foods such as fish (salmon, tuna and mackerel), fortified milk, breakfast cereals, and some juices. Available as a dietary supplement, it is also produced by the body when exposed to sunlight.
The sunshine vitamin is important for numerous reasons; it boosts immunity needed for bone growth, reduces inflammation and the risk of cancers, controls blood pressure, lessens joint pain, and helps prevent osteoporosis.
28 studies reviewed
A research team from the Warwick Medical School analyzed 28 studies to determine whether vitamin D lowered the risk of cardiometabolic disorders, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes
mellitus, and metabolic syndrome.
The studies published between 1990 and 2009 looked at 99,745 men and women across a variety of ethnic groups.
Nearly 14 studies were conducted in the United States; eight were European, two from Iran, three from Australia, and one from India.
Outcome of the study
Based on the data, the researchers found a significant association between high levels of vitamin D and lower chances of developing chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.
It was found that high levels of vitamin D cut back the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by 33 percent, type 2 diabetes by 55 percent, and metabolic syndrome by 51 percent.
Dr Franco said, “We found that high levels of vitamin D among middle age and elderly populations are associated with a substantial decrease in cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
“Targeting vitamin D deficiency in adult populations could potentially slow the current epidemics of cardiometabolic disorders.”
The study has been published in the Journal Maturitas.
Vitamin D For heart, Cancer, Diabetes Health
The report from the analysis of the 28 studies makes no mention of the healthy, natural level of vitamin D necessary to gain the maximum benefit. The experts, those who have studied vitamin D for many, many decades,insist on a level of at least 50 ng/ml. Remember these experts are much, much more informed than almost all doctors so when your GP says 30 ng/ml blood level is ideal be sure to fire him, or at the very least ignore him completely.
Most family doctors, and for that matter, all doctors, know less about vitamin D and human health than they do malaria. Almost all of what they learned in med school is completely wrong. Several case studies in particular come to mind that warned about the dangers of vitamin D toxicity. In fact nothing can be further from the truth. If by chance your doctor obsesses on vitamin D toxicity fire him immediately and find a new doctor before your old one kills you.
It is much, much, much more dangerous to be vitamin D deficient than the opposite, which is nearly impossible to achieve unless you are a pill popping maniac.
Vitamin D supplementation on a regular basis, especially in the Fall-Winter, is BY FAR the most important thing anyone will ever do for their health. NOTHING comes close to the therapeutic value of vitamin D repletion. This is the case since vitamin D- not a vitamin at all- is a steroid hormone which humans crave for health. In the end NOTHING else matters but being vitamin D replete in terms of keeping away cancer
, heart disease, diabetes and an almost endless list of other chronic human diseases.
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